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• Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Effort, Quests

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Weakness, Nations

  "Action must follow Obama's words" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, Epic

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• I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

  Curt Schilling

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Levels

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• Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

  Junior Seau

  Leadership, Guy, Lockers

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• Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Work Ethic, Ethics, Profession

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• As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

  John Cage

  Inconsistency

  Interview with John Corbett, 1989.

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• Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hallmark

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• Consistency is the defense of a small mind

  David Eddings

  Mind, Defense, Small Minds

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

  Italo Calvino

  Morning, Night, Light

  Italo Calvino (2012). “The Nonexistent Knight”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, School, Men

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Two, Creative

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• You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Wavering, Affection

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Trying, Fields

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• The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• ...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.

  William Whewell

  Science, Use, Chemistry

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• I must achieve internal consistency.

  Edmund Husserl

  Achieve, Internals

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• We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.

  Ossie Davis

  Encouragement, Stars, Eye

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.

  Toni Morrison

  Falling In Love, Hate, Knowing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

  Grimes

  Impressionable

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  Seth Godin

  Joy, Humanity, Special

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• As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.

  Stansfield Turner

  Two, Long, Nuclear

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• Consistency for me is everything.

  Alexei Navalny

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